April 26, 1856

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Features

New Capstan Windlass

Tongueing and Grooving Machine

List of Patent Claims

Artificial Propagation of Fish

The Fire Engine Boiler

The Fatigue and Fracture of Metal

The Best Time to Transplant Evergreens

On Oil from Cotton Seed

Manufacturing Glue

Coarse Wheat Meal for Bread

Cause of Heat and Cold

Artificial Wines

The Boston Steam Fire Engine

Silk from the Mulberry Tree

Marble Sawing Machine

Liquid for Coloring the Hair Black

Improvement in Vault Covers

American Institute Election

Recent American Patents

New Patents

Maine Has Spoken

Ferry Steamboats to be Put Under a Safety Law

A Hollow Mountain

Recent Foreign Inventions

Notes on Ancient and Curious Inventions.--No. 4

Gold Quartz Mining

A Railway for Ships

Important Items

Composition and Formation of Steel

Conductor and Engineer Indicted

Improvement in Scales for Weighing

Machine for Boring and Mortising

Mechanics

Swallows

Departments

Valuable Experiments With Cast Metals

Letters

To Correspondents

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